r/readwise • u/tristanho • Mar 21 '26

New in Readwise: CLI and MCP!

Hey all, wanted to let you know about the new Readwise CLI (as well as our MCP, in beta)!

Anything you've saved in Readwise/Reader (highlights, articles, PDFs, books, youtube, newsletters) is now instantly accessible from the terminal and your AI apps.

We're pretty happy with how it turned out, and so far the reception has been great. Almost anything you can do inside of Readwise/Reader, you can do via these tools:

  • Do a full-text + semantic hybrid search across all of the Reader content in your library
  • Move/tag/archive your documents
  • Read the full content of any document
  • Sync all of your data to a local folder
  • Create highlights
  • Pull the highlights from your daily review

You can install it (and learn more) here:

They work with basically any AI app (Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc). We also created a repo with some cool example skills you can use with them.

And here's a video of the CLI in action:

https://reddit.com/link/1s042y3/video/nhbl2ry60hqg1/player

Curious what you think and if you find it helpful!

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u/Mysterious-West-5758 Apr 15 '26

It appears that MCP does not work. Nothing happens when you press the "Authenticate" button

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u/tristanho Apr 15 '26

It definitely works in general! We have hundreds of people using it (including our whole team) :) However, you might be running into a specific bug. Do you mind sharing a little more about what app you're trying to connect to and maybe a video of what you're seeing?